1,355 Quotes by Idries Shah

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.